Brett Favre Quotes

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

When life hits you hard, it can throw you off course. But how you handle that adversity can teach you so much about yourself and change your perspective on what you actually want from life.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.